Improving Mobility in the Stockholm Cycle Network

The continual increase in the number of cyclists also creates greater demands on the cycle network and overall transport infrastructure. These demands are noticed in terms of the increase in both safety and accessibility problems. The identification of these problems is a key concern in a project initialised by the City of Stockholm. It is hoped that this project will be able to use new technology to document the problems experienced by cyclists on their route to and from work. Another apparent positive effect of the project is to assign priority to these problems in order that infrastructure investments can be prioritised to have the greatest effect in the short and long-term. For the project, data was collected using a GPS logger and a small camera mounted on the handlebars of the bicycle.

In order to analyse the data, special software was developed which enabled the route position to be displayed in GoogleMaps™ at the same time as the film is running. The application also generates information for each trip made and 3D-speed and delay profiles to that can be opened directly in Google Earth™. The results are presented as pinpoints on a 3D-image of the Stockholm area. Each pinpoint represents a documented problem at a specific location. The next stage of the project beginning in the autumn 2009 will attempt to discover how the prioritised problems can be resolved.

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